World Wildlife Day Celebration in Russia

Let's celebrate the World Wildlife Day 2024!

Connecting People and Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

FAO Liaison Office in Moscow together with UNEP in Russia is organizing two events to highlight the World Wildlife Day 2024.

Press conference at TASS News Agency

4 March 2024 at 11.00 am Moscow time

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Video message for World Wildlife Day 2024 (1,5 min)

Participants:

Vyacheslav Fetisov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Chairman of the All-Russian Society for Nature Conservation (TBD)

Alexander Bashkin, Member of the Federation Council, representative from the executive body of the Astrakhan Region (TBD)

Ruslan Pashaev, Minister of Agriculture and Fishing Industry of the Astrakhan Region

Elena Sharoykina, Chairman of the Commission on Ecology and Sustainable Development of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation

Sergey Rybakov, General Director of the Foundation “Nature and People”, founder and program director of the Global Forum and Discussion Club “ECUMENE”

Svetlana Akulova, General Director of the Moscow Zoo, President of the union of Russian Zoos and Aquariums (TBD)

Vladimir Moshkalo, Head of the UNEP Office in Russia

Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation

 

Seminar at the UN House in Moscow

4 March 2024 at 1.00 pm Moscow time

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During the events, participants will discuss how digital conservation technologies and services can support wildlife conservation, sustainable and legal wildlife trade and human-wildlife coexistence.

In Russia, the FAO Moscow Office, within the framework of the WWD-2024, plans to launch FAO events in Russia dedicated to the International Year of Camelids.

Moderators:

Oleg Kobiakov, Director of the FAO Liaison Office with the Russian Federation

Vladimir Moshkalo, Head of the UNEP Office in Russia

Video – message from the FAO Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu (2 min)

Video message from the head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) (2 min)

13:10 – 14:50       Expert Presentations (6-7 min):
·       Ruslan Pashaev, Minister of Agriculture and Fishing Industry of the Astrakhan Region
·       FAO Expert (TBD)
·       Vladimir Lenev, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Nairobi
·       Kirill Plemyashov, professor, Doctor of Veterinary Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, rector of the St. Petersburg State University of Veterinary Medicine
·       Sergey Treshkin, Deputy Director of the Department for Coordination of Activities of Organizations in the Field of Agricultural Sciences of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (TBD)
·       Vyacheslav Rozhnov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Scientific Council on the Ecology of Biological Systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after. A.N. Severtsov RAS ·       Yusupzhan Yuldashbaev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Animal Science and Biology, Professor of the Department of Private Animal Science of the Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Agricultural Academy named after. K.A. Timiryazeva     ·       Representative of Astrakhan State University (TBD) ·       Representative of Kalmyk State University named after. B.B.Gorodovikov (TBD)   ·       Sergey Lenivtsev, Chairman of the All-Russian public organization for environmental protection “Public Environmental Control of Russia”

  14:50 – 15:00     Final remarks by moderators

 

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